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...roses were just the beginning. Hilary threw her mother a full-blown anniversary party. "Fancy dinner at the dining-room table, Lenox china, the whole deal," says Ginny. Several friends showed up and, with Hilary's help, prepared salad and Dijon chicken. Hilary flitted about the party like the consummate hostess and, toward the end of the evening, produced several presents for her mother: linen Halloween dish towels, scented candles, and Nexxus shampoo and conditioner. Not knowing what else to do, the adults played along with the charade...
...help them understand their environmental and social impact, envision what their company would look like if it were sustainable and then realize that vision with new processes and materials. McDonald's, which has had a relationship with the advocacy group Environmental Defense for 13 years, this year stopped buying chicken treated with Cipro-like antibiotics. And, yes, Nike has begun stripping toxins from its shoes, which makes McDonough happy. You can now buy baseball cleats free of polyvinyl chloride...
...Guyana for a $20,000 up-front fee and annual payments of 15[cents] an acre. Even where loggers cannot be bought out, the damage they do can be reduced. In the Congo the Wildlife Conservation Society has persuaded the German firm CIB to feed its workers beef and chicken instead of wild bush meat from its logging concessions next to Nouable-Ndoki National Park...
Even more dangerous, notes Don Melnick, head of the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University, is how doomsayers create a Chicken Little problem. "We need to bury the notion that the biological world is going to collapse and we're all going to be extinct," he says. "That's nonsense, and it can make people feel the situation is hopeless. We can't have people asking 'So why should we bother...
...getting results like this under lab conditions and making a drug that's safe and effective are two very different matters. For one thing, nobody is going to brave a hypodermic needle just to avoid eating a third helping of tandoori chicken; yet if you put PYY in a simple pill, it will quickly be destroyed by stomach acids. For another, nobody knows what the side effects of ingesting this hormone for months or years might be. It's quite possible, as with so many other biologically active substances, that the body will quickly build a tolerance to any excess...